Two weeks ago, Google disabled the + operator for searches, requiring quotation marks to force inclusion of a word.
Today, Google Plus rolled out a new feature -
Pages for companies and brands, so you can "build relationships with all the things you care about".
Included is Direct Connect - go straight to Pepsi's Google+ page by searching for +Pepsi.
posted by dragoon
on Nov 7, 2011 -
205 comments
Google set up a sting operation to prove that rival Microsoft search engine Bing is cheating, using Internet Explorer to track users' Google search results and mining that data to improve Bing.
Here's the proof.
posted by 2bucksplus
on Feb 1, 2011 -
166 comments
Google's sheer size and power is staggering - and of course a little disconcerting. But ultimately are they ensuring the internet remains open and user friendly? CBC Radio had a great piece on the
Algorithm That Changed World on how Google has helped keep the internet useful and spammers at bay. As a user, I have not found any other search engine that come close in giving me useful results. Intelligent Life's take on
Apple vs Google, shows how this open system vs closed system philosophical differences plays itself out with product strategy. Of course, Google's user-centric world can suck if you have ever written a
book.
posted by helmutdog
on Dec 28, 2010 -
106 comments
As reported on NPR's All Tech Considered ("Tech" and "Religion"?) on 9/13. "In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet" by using
religion-based search engines. And folks are worried that Goohoo results might be biased? (SNPRL - Single Nat'l Public Radio Link)
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posted by Man with Lantern
on Sep 14, 2010 -
58 comments
Busk is a search engine dedicated to items which are in the news. It gathers the results from thousands of sites and many of them contain full content including pictures, videos, and podcasts.
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posted by gman
on Jun 2, 2010 -
15 comments
"
Worio is a discovery engine that works alongside keyword search to expose you to stuff you've been missing using search alone." (
via)
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posted by gman
on Jun 17, 2009 -
17 comments
Google has released an experimental search tool,
Google Squared, that presents search results in the form of a table. Each column represents some attribute or dimension of the things returned - for example, searching for
US presidents yields a column for date of birth, and rows for Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, etc.
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posted by Zarkonnen
on Jun 5, 2009 -
70 comments
Recipe Puppy, a new Recipe Search Engine [via
mefi projects]
A recipe search engine that lets you search for recipes by ingredients. Simply put in the ingredients you have and the type of food you want, and the search engine will return the recipes you are closest to being able to make. You can also specify ingredients you don't have, and ingredients that absolutely must be included in the recipe.
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posted by yuletide
on Apr 21, 2009 -
41 comments
Cuil is a new search engine developed by former Google employees, and claims to index 3x more pages than Google.
CNN Money story has the basics. My attempts were met with timeouts.
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posted by Ynoxas
on Jul 28, 2008 -
189 comments
Searchme is a search engine that displays results as images of web pages.
posted by xod
on Jun 19, 2008 -
22 comments
According to ComScore, Google takes 59.8% of search traffic in the US, leaving Yahoo, MSN and smaller players to fight for the scraps.
Pretty pie-chart here. Slightly different numbers are available from
Compete and
Hitwise, but Google still rules the roost.
posted by SharQ
on Apr 17, 2008 -
25 comments
Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo! The grand old man of Redmond has finally come out of the closet to woo the loveliest lady in Sunnyvale, offering a staggering $44.6 billion in cash or shares. Cash or shares? Wow! Bearing in mind the...ah...disappointments both companies have
suffered over the
recent past, is this a marriage made in heaven? Or
hell?
posted by Duug
on Feb 1, 2008 -
199 comments
Yahoo! Australia introduces a new search engine that uses OpenSearch and pretty little AJAX tricks to integrate results from Flickr, Wikpedia, YouTube (and so on). You can customize the layout, and even add your own search sources. It’s called Alpha, it’s currently in Beta, and aims to get through the rest of the Greek alphabet by June. (Via
podlob.)
posted by Milkman Dan
on Apr 10, 2007 -
13 comments
Wikiasari search engine. Wikipedia founder plans to offer a new search engine using "the same network of followers" for the process.
“Essentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: ‘this page is good, this page sucks’,” Mr Wales said. “Computers are notoriously bad at making such judgments, so algorithmic search has to go about it in a roundabout way. But we have a really great method for doing that ourselves,” he added. “We just look at the page. It usually only takes a second to figure out if the page is good, so the key here is building a community of trust that can do that.”
posted by Brian B.
on Dec 24, 2006 -
29 comments
Google Checkout is officially unveiled today; the latest service to join the Google
arsenal in their race to control the entire www. It has been suggested
in the news that the Google payment service was also a big factor in the recent Yahoo and eBay partnership, since eBay's Paypal service might finally have some real competition. More info on the service
here.
posted by p3t3
on Jun 29, 2006 -
32 comments
Google Images Censored in China A picture says 1000 words, and Google.cn is censoring them all. Check out the side-by-side screens of a search for "tiananmen+square" in Google.com and Google.cn images. Looks like a nice place, with little historical significance. You can try the search
yourself. The text on the bottom left is the censorship disclaimer. Very different than our
results. A far cry from Google's
claim that they do not censor results. Nice to know that they stand up to the government here but not abroad.
A good
spoof of the whole thing.
posted by FeldBum
on Jan 30, 2006 -
57 comments
Microsoft has unleashed their internet
search engine to the world. It currently isn't working, at least for me. Is it wrong of me to wish it stays that way?
posted by ashbury
on Nov 11, 2004 -
43 comments
I found these images,
one,
two, when I typed in “tent” in the “search all fields” field and selected image as resource type. The site is
OAIster, which is a digital library, which has 3,273,233 records from 301 institutions. Its my new magic eight ball. (
via)
posted by JohnR
on Jun 20, 2004 -
15 comments
Mining the Deep Web. Google indexes 4 billion pages, but there are hundreds of billions of documents out there in
the Deep Web that are effectively unreachable by search engines because they are locked in databases or are unsearchable media. It looks like Yahoo is going to start giving us a peek by providing unified access to a wide variety of sites that are ordinarily only searchable by their own custom search engines.
posted by badstone
on Mar 2, 2004 -
12 comments
Who gives, who gets... and surprise, Google is on top. I always figured that the search engines had a symbiotic relationship, but playing with this
Search Engine Decoder to actually
see it is far more entertaining. And, I'd never heard of
Overture, but it seems like all the big boys pay them for content. The Decoder is hosted by
Search This, which "[provides] search engine optimization and web marketing strategies for the everyday web designer." I guess that's a few of us...
posted by pineapple
on Nov 16, 2003 -
12 comments
Amazon as search engine. Is it just me, or does every search on Amazon.com result in 90% results for discontinued items or stuff they don't bother to sell? I'm not very confident.
posted by troybob
on Sep 25, 2003 -
11 comments
Grub: The seti@home of search engines? According to the
New Scientist:
"A distributed computing project called
Grub, which harnesses individual users' spare computing power and internet bandwidth, began cataloguing millions of web pages this week."
Grub
has thus launched before
HyperBee, a similar distributed search project.
This link was
previously posted on MeFi when it was still in the conceptual stage.
The project is being run by
LookSmart (along with its own open directory project called
zeal) but as the New Scientist article notes: "Website information collected by Grub is already being fed into one of LookSmart's search services, called
WiseNut. But the collected data are also freely accessible to the public, so they can be incorporated into any web site or desktop application."
Possible Google competition or doomed from the start?
posted by talos
on Apr 21, 2003 -
10 comments
A warning shot in the dark: For connoisseurs of clever turns of phrase: The phrase "a warning shot in the dark" popped out at me from a Google News preview panel as being a mixed metaphor. Indeed, a
Google search reveals that the phrase has
never before been used on the entire Web, which is rather amazing. Delving into the story, it appears by paragraph three that the mixed metaphors are appropriate, in this case.
posted by beagle
on Nov 27, 2002 -
35 comments
What is MetaFilter?
metafilter is important
metafilter is cool
metafilter is different from most weblogs
metafilter is gone for good
metafilter is boring
metafilter is bad for me
More fun usage of everyone's favourite
search engine at
www.googlism.com. I myself, am said said to have the highest dispersive mixing capability of any compounder yet. Who knew!?
posted by PenDevil
on Nov 3, 2002 -
50 comments
